Support Recuerdos Vivos/Living Memories

Our formal Indiegogo campaign ended Jan 16 - thanks to all who helped us stage the first production at Teatro Paraguas. It does a cast and crew good to see full houses and we are so grateful.Our Albuquerque premiere was at the﻿﻿National Hispanic Cultural Center from September 25-28, 2014 as part of the Siembra Latino Theater festival.Our next step is to produce a film that combines documentary footage of the Rio Puerco ghost towns, interviews with Nasario García and others whose families called the valley home and staged sequences with actors recreating the recuerdos on-site amid the llanos and ruins of the Rio Puerco valley. We’ve been to the valley; we've felt how the stories are alive on the land, rising from the plains and we feel a film that combines documentary and fiction techniques – footage of what's left of the land, dramatized stories and scenes – will best serve this sense of the past being as alive as the present. We screened excerpts from this at a special ﻿The Real Rio Puerco ﻿on ﻿Sat, Sept 27 at 2 ﻿pm as part of the play's premiere at the National Hispanic Cultural Center.

We’d also like to take this film and play on the road – travel to communities in New Mexico and beyond – and not only perform the play but use it as a catalyst to collect and re-imagine oral histories – have recuerdos workshops where we invite communities to share their memories and then transform them into video or theater presentations – so that we are not simply archiving the past but re-encountering it. Read more...

If you'd like to join us – as producers, contributors, volunteers – we would welcome your support. Please contact us with suggestions, ideas, feedback – we'd love to hear from you. Email us to join our mailing list or to donate to the project.